Gossip

Gossip is a desktop client for nostr.

Nostr is "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays."

This is pre-alpha code. It is not ready for use.

NOTE: I am reworking this code to use GTK4 because something about Tauri/JavaScript/WebkitGTK is dog slow. See issue #58. I probably wont be pushing my work into this repo until I'm sure it's on the right path, so don't fret if this repo seems idle for a while.

Features

• Asychronous design: No busy waiting, no repeatitive polling, easy on your processor.
• Portable to Linux (Debian, RedHat, Arch) MacOS and Windows
• Talks to as few relays as it needs to to keep up with the people you follow, and doesn't overload them with too heavy of requests.
• Look good in light and dark modes.

nostr features supported

• Reads and displays type=1 (TextNote) events in a feed sorted by time created.
  • Shows replies under the message they reply to
  • Shows deleted events struck out with red deleted marker.
• Shows people you subscribe to in the Person tab
  • Processes type=0 (Metadata) events to show user information on events in your feed (name, avatar)
  • Lets you subscribe to a person (via public key and relay), but currently requires a restart
• Identity:
  • Lets you generate an ID (private key) and stores that key encrypted under a passphrase, zeroing memory when finished with it where it can.
  • Lets you import an ID (private key)
• Settings: feed chunk size, overlap, autofollow, but these don't work right yet.

nostr features planned for first alpha release

• Lets you choose and manage relays you post to
• Lets you post messages
• Shows reactions (but maybe not yet react yourself)
• Lets you 'load more' older posts if you want to look back further

nostr features planned for subsequent releases

• Lets you subscribe to a person via a DNS ID (NIP-35)
• Validates users via NIP-05
• Lets you react to other people's posts
• Lets you show events from people you don't follow if they reply to a post you do
• Lets you mute someone
• Lets you rank relays
• Shows links as links
• Shows images inline (option to wait for your approval)
• Include a 'client' tag
• Show the 'client' tag of posts
• Support "content-warning"
• Allow browsing of relay-global events of people you dont follow
• Multiple identities
• Publish your following list
• Follow someone privately (without including in your posted following list)
• Allow viewing of other people's following lists w/ petnames
• Dismiss a message for this session only w/o deleting it

Technology Involved

• Tauri App Framework
• Rust Language
• HTML and Javascript
• VueJS 3.x (Composition API)
• Vue-Router
• Pinia (Javascript global data storage)
• Vite (for development)
• Yarn (for development)
• SQLite 3
• Tungstenite websocket library
• Tokio async task runtime
• Serde serialization/deserialization
• Many others: (dirs, env_logger, futures, lazy_static, log, nostr-proto, rusqlite, serde_json, textnonce, thiserror)

License

• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, shall be licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.